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Giants

Huge Man-like monsters. Perhaps the most mysterious of the races of Middle-earth, Giants are mentioned only fleetingly by Tolkien, but sufficiently often to show that they did exist in his world. The only definite sighting of giants occurred during Bilbo's journey through the Misty Mountains, in the year III 2941. That they had a history preceding this is certain, because we have a reference to ancient bears living in the Misty Mountains '... before the giants came.' (The Hobbit 7 'Queer Lodgings'). What became of the giants is entirely unknown: apart from a few very vague references in The Lord of the Rings, they are never mentioned again.